In this task, primary school learners create a short story using the Puppet Pals App, which allows the user to make animated scenes and add audio recordings. The story consists of three scenes: creating a shopping list, talking to the shop assistant, and paying at the cash register. In the post-task phase, the finished outcomes … Continued
In this task, third graders, having read a story called ‘Gentle Giant’s Garden’ create a new version of it on the iPad. They first draw and cut out the assigned characters, as well as the background (garden). Then they re-create the story as a combination of narration and dialogue. In order to complete the text, … Continued
In this task, a group of fourth-grade learners use a combination of two apps to create a virtual tour of London. The final outcomes were displayed in their classroom at the Doors Open Day at their school. In the pre-task phase, the learners worked on the vocabulary by reading small texts related to six famous … Continued
Following a Skype video-conference in which the learners got to know each other and exchanged video-selfies using the Google Drive to store them, two remote classrooms in Germany and France decided to create new versions of stories they had previously read in class and shared them with the learners in the other class. The new … Continued
In this task, two remote classes, one in Germany, one in France, communicated firstly via Skype, then exchanged video-selfies in order to get to know each other a little bit better. In the pre-task phase, the learners first engaged in a Skype video-conference and introduced themselves to the learners in the other remote classroom. Afterwards … Continued
In this task, two remote classrooms engage in an online communication using Skype as a platform to enable real-time exchange. The learners in the German class are 7-8 years old and it is their first year of learning English as a foreign language. In the pre-task, the teacher used the IWB to set the context … Continued
In this task, the learners created a short animated scene using the Puppet Pals App to describe a funny monster. In the pre-task phase, the teacher played a series of games with the learners, helping them recall the vocabulary related to numbers, colours and body parts (Heads Down, Simon Says, What’s Missing, and so on). … Continued
In this task, learners created short video clips describing the content of their school bags. The primary motivation was to share these videos later on with a remote class in France. With the help of their teacher, the learners decided to use the iMovie app since it is easy to use and it enables the … Continued
In this task, a group of primary school learners in Germany create ebooks and share them with primary school learners in Wales. In the pre-task phase, the teacher set the context by giving more information about the geographical position of Wales and some information about the school. Additionally, a model ebook was shared with the … Continued
In this task, the primary school learners were told that students from a neighbour university wanted to know more about their school and they were shown an iMovie about the University of Education, produced by university students. It featured pictures of the building, rooms, some offices, and the canteen, followed by a question ‘Can you … Continued